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Re: telnet/ftp/rlogin/rsh not working between Linux machines. (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Shankland)
Fri Aug 18 03:55:03 1995
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 10:46:52 -0700
From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.COM>
To: bli@umgis.merrick.miami.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
> > > the subnet. For example, when I issued the command
> > >
> > > telnet linux3
> > >
> > > I got the following response:
> > >
> > > Connected to linux3.....
> > > Escape characters is '^]'
> > > Connection closed by foreign host
> >
> > This means that linux3 is not running "in.telnetd", or refusing
> > connections from your machine. Most likely, the "telnet" entry in
> > "/etc/inetd.conf" is commented out.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Ray
> > --
>
No. The fact that the connection was accepted, then closed,
means the telnetd service is up. It just doesn't like your
hostname or IP address. See /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} on linux3.
Jim Shankland
Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.